Application Requirements

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

The Golden Fleece Award is open to craft and visual artists living and working on the island of Ireland as well as Irish born artists working overseas.

The award is open to practising craft and visual artists at any career stage, who can demonstrate existing artistic merit and expertise in their chosen field, plus the vision/ plans to advance their work to a new level.

There are no age restrictions for the award, but applications will not normally be considered from students undertaking full time study.

The award is intended for artists working in all forms of visual, craft and applied arts. Makers using new technologies to support creative processes and hands-on making are welcome to apply.

Winners of the main Golden Fleece Award are not eligible to reapply, but winners of Merit awards, and all other previous entrants, are welcome to do so.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Applicants must demonstrate existing artistic merit and expertise in their chosen field, evidenced through submission of a set of images of work produced during the past 2 years, and illustrating their current artistic activity. (Any outsourced parts of this work should be identified in the accompanying image descriptions).

Applicants must demonstrate their vision/ plans to advance their work to a new level/ in a new direction of creativity and craftsmanship, through a short written statement (max 300 words).

Applicants must demonstrate a specific financial need and show how the award would assist them to advance their work over a limited period of time (1-2 years). A budget breakdown should be supplied.

RULES FOR ENTRY

Applications must be made online through the Golden Fleece Award application system.

Images submitted as part of the application process should be in JPEG format and each individual image should not exceed max 5MB in size. Video clips not exceeding 20 MB in size may also be submitted in WMA, MPG, FIV or AVI formats.

By applying for the Golden Fleece Award you consent, if you are short listed, to the Trustees of the Award using your name and the images and text you have submitted in the promotion (and not for any other purpose) of the Award on the Golden Fleece website, in articles, or in other promotional material.

There is no application fee for the award.

The trustees' decision will be final.

Tá fáilte riomh iarrataisí as Gaeilge.

The Golden Fleece Award normally consists of one major Award, plus a number of smaller Merit awards. The size of the award fund varies somewhat from year to year but is usually in the region of €20,000. It is normally possible to make a main Award of €12-15,000.
Deadline for receipt of applications: 2 pm on Friday 17th November 2017.
The presentation of awards will be made in early 2018.